• Adobe After Effects

  Question for a pro

  Posted by Brian Mcgovern on October 15, 2005 at 6:22 am

  There is an effect I’m trying to achieve… sort of being like inside a tornado. In the foreground, I have a rear-view of someones head looking straight ahead. His head stays stationary while the background, which is done already, rotates around from left to right giving you an impression that you are inside the center of a tornado. You only see one side of the “tornado” at all times. Within the rotating background, I need to attach letter size ads, credit cards and tabloid size ads to the interior wall of the tornado spinning around this head in the foreground.

  How can I rotate these ads to look like they are spinning with the inside of the “tornado”. The ads need sort of a convex (bowing out) kind of look to them as they spin around a center point, which is the head.

  Can I somehow establish a center point for the ads the spin around on with the 3D button? and can the ads appear convex and rotate with the shape of the rotating background?

  Can anybody help out with this one?

  Thanks

  Brian Mcgovern replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Barend Onneweer

  October 15, 2005 at 11:43 am

  You can parent the flying elements to a null layer that’s located at the center of the tornado, so they’ll rotate around that center point.

  As to the distortion of the ad layers, you could play around with bezier warp. Not true 3D, but it should work.

  Bar3nd
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  Brian Mcgovern

  October 15, 2005 at 2:31 pm

  Thank you very much. Your answer was shorter than the explaination. kudos

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